The best routes are crowded for a reason; they are the best. It has always been a problem, but there is at least twice as much traffic as 10 years ago on most routes, and the advent of speed climbing has exacerbated the friction. Read More »

Photo EssayThe first good vantage of the scope of the damage was from the slight saddle near Quivering Quill; and even it looked south, where only a few square miles of lightly burned land was visible. Seeing nothing but small swatches of green amongst large tracts of brown and black made us very quiet. We stood and just looked at it for a long time, the scale too large to really comprehend. And still, we were just on the southern edge. The valleys north had burnt for another thirty miles, in the middle of the inferno on its fastest days. Read More »